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(10,974 posts)It should be a basic function of their job to understand the policies of their school and be prepared to answer questions about them.
They're getting wrecked over their responses - including from the White House - and well they should be.
We have seen multiple instances at these universities where speech has been interpreted as threatening - and many of those instances didn't come close to rising to the level of advocating genocide. Here are a few examples of Harvard getting its policy on: https://www.thefire.org/news/harvard-gets-worst-score-ever-fires-college-free-speech-rankings
They tried to wriggle out from under giving a statement that would be controversial to a cohort of students and faculty with . . . less than great views about Jews, and they ended up walking into the rake laying in the other direction.
D'aw. Poor presidents.